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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino and Robert Mackey

Trump announces 50% steel tariffs and hails ‘blockbuster’ deal with Japan

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Trump at the rally in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on Friday. Photograph: David Dermer/AP

Donald Trump announced on Friday he was doubling foreign tariffs on steel imports to 50%, as the president celebrated a “blockbuster” agreement for Japan-based Nippon Steel to invest in US Steel during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Surrounded by men in orange hardhats at a US Steel plant in West Mifflin, Trump unveiled the new levies, declaring that the dramatic rate increase would “even further secure the steel industry in the United States”.

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